National Republican., 1887-03-21
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30 STON
921 PA. AVENUE.

lost your property. You had a great many
letters blowing you up for being unfortunate.
tion OF circumstances and that your insol-
yency was no fault of yours. Your. creditors
talked to you as though they would have
after protest tumbied in on your desk. Men
who used to take your hand with both OF theirs
andshakeit violently now pass you on the street
with an almost imperceeptible nod. After six
you go home and you shut the door, and
throw yourself on the sofa, and you feel In
state OF despair. You wish that some one
Everything seems to be against you. The
bank against you. Your creditors against you
Your friends, suddenly become critical, against
you; Al the past past against you. A AL the fixture future
"No man cares for my SOUL"
There was another occasion when all the
doors OF your heart swung open for sacred In.
tuences. A bright light went ont in your
household. Within three or four days there
were compressed sickness death. obsequies.
You were SO lonely that q hundred people
solitariness., You were almost killed with the
domestic calamity. A few formal, perfunctory
words of consolation were uttered on the stairs
before you Tentt the Sraye but yen wanted aSna
matter. and recite the alleviations and de-
cipher the lessons of the dark bereavement
No one game. Many time you could not
which was re-enacted all the scene Of sick
ness and parting and dissolution. Oh, what
to care for your soul.
There was another occasion when your heart
was very susceptible. There was great
awakening. There were hundreds OF people
who pressed into the kingdom OF God some Of
them acquaintances, some business associates,
yes, perhaps some members of your own fam
lily were baptized by sprinkling or immersion.
Christian people thought OF you and they
dAfN rnuNH lta rnIN hNOt-
ness They. stopped at your house; you had
gone around to spend the evening. They sent
q kindly message to you; somehow. by acci-
Gospel swept through the surf aud everybody
seemed to get in but you. Everything seemed
to escape you. One touch of personal SYM
hy TGd hSSs pushed Into the Eng
friends went In and your sons and daughters
went into the church, you buried your face in
your handkerchief and sobbed "Why am /
left out? Everybody seems to get saved but
me. No man cares for my SOUL"
Hearken to revelation have to make. II
Is a startling statement. 1t Will so osnrpriseyou
that must prove 1t as go on. Instead of this
your soul, / have to tell you that heaven, earth,
to cheat it. He'll to destroy it.. Heaven to re-
deem IL Although you may be STRANGER e e
glow and their hearts would bound II they saw
you make one step heavenward. So intricate
and far.reaching Is this web of sympathy that
ers in your behalf. No one care for your soul
Why, one signal of distress on your part would
thrill this audience with holy excitement. II
from the men of war. and from the sloop. aud
from the steamers, the flying paddles would
pull to the rescue. And IL now, you would
lift one signal Of distress, all these yoyagers Of
bring you relief. But no. You are like ship
on fire OF sea. They keep the matches
down, and the captain Is frenzied,. and he
lie says: Il shall either land this vessel in
Hamburg, or on the bottom OF the ocean, aud
don't care which" Yonder Is ship OF the
White Star line passing, Yonder one Of the
Yonder one of the IDman line. But they
know not that there Is any calamity happen
ing on that one vessel. oh II the captain
out. Lower your boats Bear down this M way
No signal is given. II that vessel perishes,
haying M,, hailed an no % one whose fault viii \ BE-
calamity, or will It be the fault OF the vessels
that passing on the high seas. would have
been glad to furnish reliefif 1t had been only
askedY In other words. my brother, II You
miss heaven II will be your own fault.
No one care for your soul Why In all the
ages there have been men whose entire busi-
went down under the knives Of the cannibals
whom he had come TO save, and Robert
McCheyne preached himself TO death by
80 years ofage, and John Bunyan was thrown
into dungeon in Bedfordshlre, and Jehudi
Asman endured all the malarias OF the African
jungle, and there are hundreds aud thousands
of Christian men and women now who are
praying, toiling. preaching, living, dying 10
save souls.
No one care for your soul Have you heard
how Christ feels about II? know IL was only
five or six miles from Bethlehem to Calvary
the birthplace and the deathplace of Christ
hut who can tell how many miles II was from
the throne TO the manger2 How many milel
down, how many miles back again D The place
OF His departure was the focus Of all splendol